Tag Archives: DNA sequencing

Rapid, raw-read reference and identification (R4IDs): A flexible platform for rapid generic species ID using long-read sequencing technology.

Posted on 13 March, 2018 by Joe

Our paper on rapid identification of samples using partial, low-coverage, MinION-sequenced reference databases for ID (at the Kew Science Festival) is in preprint. See here on BiorXiv: doi: 10.1101/281048. In it, we show (with empirical data and simulation) that the … Continue reading →

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Real-time phylogenomics or ‘Some interesting problems in genomic big data’

Posted on 6 February, 2018 by Joe

Talk given at a technology/informatics company, London, Feb 2018. An overview of contemporary advances and remaining problems in big-data biology, especially phylogenomics. Tweet this Digg Post to LinkedIn Slashdot Stumble This

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More MinION – the ‘1D rapid’ prep

Posted on 29 March, 2016 by Joe

My last MinION post described our first experiments with this really cool new technology. I mentioned then that their standard library prep was fairly involved, and we heard that the manufacturers, Oxford Nanopore, were working on a faster, simpler library prep. We … Continue reading →

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